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  1. Good Evening Everyone, My husband and I have recently book our first Celebrity Cruise. We normally cruise with Royal or Carnival. Anyway I just want to confirm that I understand a couple of things before we purchase the 3 Night Specialty Dining Package. 1. Does Celebrity automatically book you, for their specialty dining restaurant of choice for embarkation night? (Which means then we only get to pick 2 nights worth of restaurants) 2. Once the specialty dining package is purchased, can you make your reservations pre-cruise or do you have to wait until you are on board? 3. In your opinion is the Chef's table worth it? (Please share your experience) Thanks for your help!
  2. Now to get our bags and head to the Lyft pick up section so we can get to our hotel for the night. Ladies and gentlemen we will be staying at the new Yotel Maimi. I booked this hotel back in March before it even opened at a pre-open rate. The hotel is a store front entrance. You check yourself in through the tablet they provide on the lobby floor you activate your own room key and all. Up to the 4th floor we go. At first glance the hotel room is very chic and modern and has a purple color back light. The bed definitely looks like an over sized pullout sofa. Honestly we don’t have time to think about it because it’s 5:45pm and we are supposed to meet Kanise and Darren in the lobby for dinner at 6:30pm. We throw our luggage in the room freshen up and head out for the night. Kanise and Darren are already in the lobby when we get off the elevators. I was so happy to see her I walked right past Darren and hugged Kanise I was so happy to see her, there was actually a tear or 4 shedded. We had reservations at Land Shark Bar & Grill tonight because I saw on a commercial that they had a crab boil pot that was calling my name because it was my birthday and I love crab. We walked the 5-10min walk to the Bayside Marketplace where the music was flowing and the party life was on it’s way. We got to our table took some pictures and now on to the crab. Well so I thought. When it came time to order our wonderful waitress informed us that even though its a crab boil you only get one crab cluster of crab and a bunch of potatoes and corn. Excuse me miss can you say that again, so for $45 you get one crab cluster in the crab boil.. Please someone make it make since but that was not the crab feast that I had in mind. Thanks post COVID food prices. I guess its time for plan B. I will have the crab cakes and the its 5 O’clock somewhere cocktail. LandShark was just average nothing to complain about but nothing to write home about either. So we sat at our waterfront table talking and laughing and enjoying the night. At around 9:30pm we decided hey lets find Fat Tuesdays because that is in the Marketplace and a Miami Vice is calling my name. So off we went, stopping at different places along the way to dance to the music they had playing as we passed by. When I say we stopped at every place along the way to dance that's exactly what we did. I guess we better head back to the hotel because we have an early exciting morning. Back to Yotel we go. Now let me tell you more about this hotel and why we would never go back. Yes the rooms are chic and modern but the functionality of the room got a little lost. For example because of the way the showers are made when you shower all the water escapes and now you have a river in your room every time you shower. In addition to this the toilet has only dividers from the rest of the room not actual walls. So there is very little privacy if you know what I mean. Any whoo we are showered and ready to climb into bed but to our surprise there are some visitors in our bed from the last guest that were in that room. That's right, our bed was full of brown long stringy hair that just went on for days. I am not talking about one or two strands I am talking about did she sit in bed and pull her hair out? So I call down to front desk to let them know our bed is below standards to say the least. We were then informed that housekeeping is gone for the day and that someone could bring us new sheets but we would have to change our own sheets. Let me say this, I have worked in the hotel industry for the last 4 years and I have never had to tell a guest you must change your own sheets. Now if this was motel 6 or Holiday Inn Express I could see the front desk agent telling me this. But excuse me sir I paid close to $200 for one night, I have had to clean up a river and now I have to change my own sheets. At this point I just want to go to bed so it can be cruise day. Sir please send the sheets up in my annoyed voice. Just an FYI they were completely sold out, so we could not change rooms. 30 mins later there is a knock at the door, and we can finally go to bed now that we are working on Midnight. We climb into bed praying the oversized pullout sofa doesn’t break because from the sound of it you would think Nick and I were Elephants. I drifted off thinking to myself its just one night and in the morning the best day ever will begin!
  3. A Little Background: This is my 7th cruise. I have sailed the Fantasy 2008, Fascination 2014, Triumph 2017, Conquest 2018, Majesty of Seas 2019, Independence of the Sea 2022 and now the Horizon!! We have a blended family that includes three children a 9 year old boy, a 12 year old girl, and 17 year old boy. We can’t forget our two dogs and a gecko. We try once a year for us to take an adult only vacation, which has been a cruise until last year were we tried our first all-inclusive. Thanks to me because I have cruise fever and can’t get enough we are back to cruising. This is Kanise’s 3rd Cruise and Darren’s first. They are joining us from Manchester, VA and we are currently living in Byron, GA. Which is 2 hrs south of Atlanta, GA. Travel Day & My Birthday Oct 8: Our day starts for me at 6:00am because I couldn’t sleep any longer. It was like Christmas Day in my head. The sun wasn’t even up yet. The whole house was sleeping and I was praying for the time to past so we could head to the airport for our 12:40pm flight. I was so excited I couldn’t eat breakfast or even drink coffee. Finally BFF texts at 7:30am to say that they have made it to the airport and to say Happy Birthday to me. You guys believe me when I say I was so excited to go on this cruise, that when I saw Happy Birthday I was like aww s**t it is my birthday. In all the years of my life I have never forgotten my birthday until 2022. (Excuse my language that will be the first and last bad word in this blog). Its 7:30am so I run into the bedroom to wake Hubby. Get up, get up, its pre cruise day and we got things to do sir. You can sleep when we get back from our cruise on the 15th. But for now if you want to remain married you better get out of that bed sir. Finally at 9:30am we are finally washed, dressed and the car is packed for us to head to the airport, thankfully we spent the night at our friend Sean’s house who only lives 15mins for the Atlanta Airport. Airport here WE COME!! Finally we made it to the airport checked our bags, printed our boarding passes and took the train to the proper concord and found the right gate. All this excitement only to arrive at our gate to find out that our flight has been delayed. Are kidding me birthday gods. Why why why have you forsaken me. Apparently, we didn’t have a pilot and we needed to wait for the pilot to land from another flight before he could fly us to Miami. I guess the pilot is an important part of this process. FINE, I guess Nick and I will get breakfast to past the time away until 1:45pm. All I know is Miami better be worth the wait. If I didn’t mention this before this my first time to Miami. Nick has been there years and years ago. Finally 1:15pm and we can finally board! YES YES YES, lets hit it. On our Way to row 4o window and middle seat. But before we get too excited, excuse Ma’am with the dark hair, sorry to bother you but you are in my seat. She replies are you sure. Me taking a deep and remembering this is someone's grandmother. Yes Ma’am. She finally moves to her correct seat. Thank you Birthday Gods and we are off. Everything was fine with the flight until it was time to land. We descend back to earth to find out that it had been raining the whole time we were in the clouds. This didn’t help us during our landing because the plane hydroplaned and everyone broke out into screams and all I could do was pray to the real God for us not to tip over because I swear to you that plane was so tilted that if we would have been a car we would have been on two wheels and then the pilot over corrects and now we are tilted in the opposite direction I grab Nick’s hand for dear life and close my eyes and pray some more. Thankfully my prays were heard and there was no more tilting just the pilot jamming on the brakes to stop the plane and me almost losing my breakfast from the seat belt holding me in place. Delta Airlines we need to talk.
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  5. I'm so excited to read another great review with amazing pics
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